From Piracy to Profits, YouTube Struggles Editor's Blog 12/30/2008 18 comments YouTube has made headlines this year, time and again, for copyright infringements, but 55% of our users believe it will thrive as a profitable media company
This Web Is Not Yet Rated Editor's Blog 12/29/2008 29 comments Britain's culture secretary, Andy Burnham, recommends cinema-style ratings for Websites, demonstrating a bit of confusion about how the Internet works
No Pouting, No Crying as We Close Out 2008 Editor's Blog 12/24/2008 3 comments We're telling you why: Internet Evolution declares love and hate for some of the happenings in and around the Internet industry in 2008
Readers Give Google Maps the Thumbs Up Editor's Blog 12/22/2008 16 comments Internet Evolution readers call Google Maps Street View a 'great resource,' turning a blind eye to privacy violations and security risks
Draw Your Curtains – Google's Filming Ira Winkler 12/19/2008 52 comments Google Street View is fine for public buildings, but do you really want your kids photographed playing in the front yard?
Penetration Testing Gone Terribly Right Gideon J. Lenkey 12/18/2008 13 comments It doesn't take heroic measures or extraordinary expense to keep the bad guys out – just some forethought and common sense
The Debate Over Governing Cyberspace Editor's Blog 12/18/2008 12 comments In our latest report, Internet Evolution examines government's greatest screw-ups, including its inability to enforce regulations necessary to ensure cyber-security
Virtual Environments Play Host to Enemy Within Jart Armin 12/17/2008 7 comments Anyone with a credit card can rent rack space or dispatch a server to launch a botnet-controlled attack from St. Petersburg, Beijing, or Islamabad
Pew: Internet Won't Affect Social Change Editor's Blog 12/15/2008 16 comments According to a study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, the Internet will not have a positive impact on social tolerance
The US National Security Agency learned the hard way that it can be dangerous to give a contractor too much money and access, with too little scrutiny. The NSA and other government agencies hire tens of thousands of contractors
a year to analyze data. Edward Snowden -- who revealed himself as the NSA leaker after fleeing the country -- was one such contractor, reportedly holding a $122,000 salaried position at Booz Allen Hamilton at the time of his departure.
Midsize businesses rarely achieve the same standards of security in their own datacenters as professional providers that specialize in delivering these services to organizations.
Big-data and analytics tools enable marketers to understand customers as individuals, identifying unmet needs and addressing each customer as a "segment of one," says John Kennedy, VP corporate marketing, IBM.
New York's Metropolitan Transit Authority is conducting a pilot test of digital kiosks to guide subway users to where they want to go more efficiently and at lower cost.
The whole Amazon.reader debate is a double-stupid. It's stupid to think that there's any e-book buyer who doesn't know Amazon's URL, and it was stupider to let ICANN launch the whole free-form TLD initiative to start with.
While NFC's original goal was to enhance mobile commerce applications, it is finding its way into a number of other uses, which is creating both opportunity as well as challenges for IT departments.
Enterprises would like to move to cloud computing but are hesitant because they are concerned about providers’ ability to secure company data. Here are some tips that help to ensure that if breaches occur, the business is not left holding the bag.
Edmunds separates customers into segments based on the info it collects on its site and from partners, and uses that to push out custom content, said Brian Baron, director of business analytics for Edmunds.com, at Predictive Analytics Innovation Summit.
The IBM Smarter Commerce Global Summit in Monaco kicked into high gear today, and we've already begun to see news emerging from that lovely city-state by the sea.
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